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E22: Bio-Economics of Murder: The Jigsaw Murders

The Long Game··28 August 2026·26 min

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A doctor tried to erase two murders so completely that he turned the crime scene into a puzzle.What finally exposed the truth was not a confession, but forensic ingenuity; skull reconstruction, photographic superimposition, and insects that could timestamp death with uncanny precision.Ross Cagan and Sandy Weir unpack the infamous Buck Ruxton case, known as the Jigsaw Murders and Bodies Under the Bridge, and show how a 1935 killing in Moffat helped redefine modern forensic science.